- Title
- Duel-names : How toponyms (placenames) can represent hegemonic histories and alternative narratives
- Creator
- Kostanski, Laura
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/101095
- Identifier
- vital:10648
- Identifier
- http://library.federation.edu.au/record=b2615844
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781925021622 (pbk); 9781925021639 (ebk)
- Abstract
- Of central import to this study is the rarely cited notion that 'it is not spaces which ground identifications, but places. How then does space become place? By being named' (Carter, Donald and Squires 1993: xii). Carter and others are among the few who have overtly linked the process of naming to the creation of places from space and their theoretical cohort include Claude Levi-Strauss (1962) who noted that place is named space, and Tim Cresswell (2004: 10) who asserted that 'when humans invest meaning in a portion of space and then become attached to it in some way (naming is one such way) it becomes place'. This concept of place positioning human landscape interactions is of integral importance to this research in that it is thought to be toponyms which symbolise this interaction and identification. This paper contributes to the developing field of cultural toponymy by examining whether the social and cultural role of toponyms can be partly defined through a theory on toponymic identity. Essentially, this paper asks 'can toponyms contribute to a social, cultural and historical identity formation or recognition in similar, yet distinguishable, ways to places?'.
- Publisher
- ANU Press
- Relation
- Indigenous and minority placenames : Australian and international perspectives (Aboriginal history series) Chapter 15 p. 273-292
- Rights
- Copyright © ANU Press
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Indigenous placenames; Minority placemames; Toponymy
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